Sentence examples for pernicious victory from inspiring English sources

But it is not inevitable and certainly not enough reason to hand the gun lobby this pernicious victory.

Valen Levinson: One of the really pernicious victories of 9/11 and the way we talked about it was to frame all of our interactions with this part of the world in terms of conflict.

The most pernicious thing about victory blindness is that it inspires a change in tactic.

It's this pernicious idea of victory and defeat again — we all want to kill the competition, to eradicate it, vanquish it, in order to be anointed as a kind of objective superior.

It is a lens through which we can see the pernicious and far-reaching effects of inequality, what a victory over self-serving corporate behavior looks like and — just as important — how much we still risk losing in such fights.

"Pernicious quicksand!

But pernicious?

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

And they are pernicious.